It’s Not Me, It’s Him, Right?

We want a Mountain West Hockey Conference…

For those of you who don’t know, I spent the early part of the 90s as a graduate student at Colorado State. Especially in the beginning, I struggled with homesickness. I hated Fort Collins. I hated the crappy room I was renting in a basement. I hated the Denver Broncos. The only thing that kept me going was the work I was doing. That was pretty good. However, things could have been better if there was good hockey for me to see. At the time, they had club hockey, which is pretty much is saying there’s no difference between the Boston Pops and the Fayetteville Community Symphonic Band. It just wasn’t the same.

Normally I would say that Internet petitions are pointless, but I will say this one rates as not entirely worthless. It’s to bring a NCAA hockey team to CSU. It’s probably not going to happen. A few years ago, when the athletic department was forced to add a sport for Title IX purposes, added water polo and told the swimmers — “guess what, you play water polo as well.” So I don’t see some petition handed over and being the reason that puts it over the top. But, any chance to add the world’s second best sport to the nation’s 124th best university should at least be looked at.